APP: A Late Triassic dinosaur-dominated ichnofauna from the Tomanová Formation of the Tatra Mountains

[Daniel Madzia <daniel.madzia@gmail.com>]

Dear DMLers,
in case you haven't read it yet:

Niedźwiedzki, G. 2011. A Late Triassic dinosaur-dominated ichnofauna
from the Tomanová Formation of the Tatra Mountains, Central Europe.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (X): xxx-xxx. doi:
10.4202/app.2010.0027

Abstract: Osteological fossils of dinosaurs are relatively rare in the
Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. Thus, ichnofossils are a critical
source of information on Late Triassic terrestrial vertebrate
communities. The outcrops of the Tomanová Formation (?late
Norian-Rhaetian) in the Tatra Mountains of Poland and Slovakia have
yielded a diverse ichnofauna. Seven more or less distinct morphotypes
of dinosaur tracks have been recognized and are discussed. Most tracks
are partly eroded or deformed, but are preserved well enough to be
assigned to a range of trackmakers, including early ornithischians,
small and large theropods (coelophysoids and/or possibly early
tetanurans), and probably basal sauropodomorphs ("prosauropods") or
first true sauropods.

http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100027_acc.pdf

Best,
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Daniel Madzia
web: www.wildprehistory.org
mail: daniel.madzia@gmail.com
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